Reconstruction Review

Which of the following is the best description of the Reconstruction Era?

• Southern states rejoining the Northern states
• Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant
• Lincoln allowing Congress to decide how the Southern states should be punished

Which words most accurately reflect Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

• “the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish”
• “revenge is the justice due upon our southern counterparts”
• “with malice towards none”
• “all Americans, Northerners and Southerners, are due the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction differed from that of Congress by -

• Congress wanting to quickly and easily allowing the Southern stats back into the Union
• Johnson wanting Southerners to be allowed to keep slaves
• Johnson wishing to allow Tennessee to have no punishment while the other Southern states receive harsh treatment
• Congress desiring to punish the South harshly for their actions during the Civil War

What was another reason Congress passed this act in 1862?

• To promote settlement in the West
• To protect industry in the Northeast
• To improve transportation in the South
• To transport manufactured goods to the East

This list describes conditions found in -

• California following the Gold Rush
• Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812
• western territories after the U.S.-Mexican War
• southern states at the beginning of Reconstruction

The purpose of the “Black Codes” were to -

• ensure rights of African Americans were protected
• make sure the African American population was accurately counted
• keep African Americans as slaves
• limit many rights of African Americans

Which of the following is a specific example of how the Freedmen’s Bureau supported freedmen?

• Jobs were given to African Americans in the lumber industry
• Money was given to freemen to buy food and shelter
• Education was provided to freedmen
• Trains and wagons carried freedmen to the North to find jobs

What was the significance of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution?

• African Americans were seen as equal citizens to whites
• Slavery was abolished from America

• Voting rights were not determined by race
• States were allowed to rule on the legality of slavery

What is the significance of the 15th Amendment -

• African Americans were seen as equal citizens to whites
• Slavery was eradicated from America
• Voting rights were not determined by race
• States were allowed to rule on the legality of slavery

This painting of a Missouri scene was completed in 1852. Such scenes would look dramatically different after the -

• ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
• Second Great Awakening
• emergence of Manifest Destiny
• expansion of the factory system into the South